![]() ![]() Special jury prize – Empty Nets (Ger-Iran) dir. Grand Prix – Blaga’s Lessons (Bul-Ger) dir. This year’s honorary award recipients were Russell Crowe, of the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema and President’s Award receipients Daniela Kolarova for cinematography, plus actors Alicia Vikander, Ewan McGregor and Robin Wright. The number of films screened increased from 170 to 185 with an increase from 108 to 116 in the number of feature-length world premieres The number of festival passes (9,085), filmmakers (432) and accredited film professionals (942) were all up on last year.ġ23,517 tickets were sold for this year’s festival – up slightly from 121,015 last year. The 2023 festival was attended by 10,989 accredited guests – up 3.7% from last year. The Eastern Promises industry awards were announced earlier this week, including Sahraa Karimi’s works-in-development winner Flight From Kabul. In the Proxima competition, Yoo Ji-young’s Birth took the $15,000 Grand Prix, with Saurav Rai’s Guras receiving a $10,000 Special Jury Prize. Herbert Nordrum, star of Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World, took the KVIFF best actor award for his role in Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis with the film also receiving the Europa Cinema label award, which aims to promote the exhibition lifespan of a film from the Crystal Globe and Proxima competitions.Ī Crystal Globe Special Jury Mention went to Cyril Aris’ Germany-Lebanon co-production Dancing On The Edge Of A Volcano with Vincent Perez’s The Edge Of The Blade taking the audience award. Babak Jalali took best director for his US title Fremont. The $15,000 Special Jury Prize went to Behrooz Karamizade’s Iranian-German co-production Empty Nets, about a young couple fighting to keep their true love alive in the forbidding world of contemporary Iran. Scroll down for the full list of winnersīlaga’s Lessons had its world premiere at Karlovy Vary it follows a teacher who loses her life savings in a phone scam and so turns the tables to earn money by becoming a scammer herself. The main Grand Prix from the Crystal Globe jury consists of $25,000, to be shared equally between the director and producers, the latter of which are Komandarev and Katya Trichkova. The eighth feature from Bulgarian filmmaker Komandarev also received the best actress prize, for Eli Skorcheva and a non-statutory Grand Prize from the ecumenical jury. ![]() The recommendation is that you sleep on it before rewatching your show of choice to allow the hypnosis work its magic in your dreams.Stephan Komandarev’s Bulgarian-German drama Blaga’s Lessons led the winners at the 57 th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), taking three prizes including the Crystal Globe Grand Prix. The anxiety in my chest immediately vanished. ![]() Giant Nicole Kidman knows the truth, I thought. She was giving that me that suspicious, super-intense look she does so well. Kidman's supersized face floated back into view. The memory of watching it before should be fuzzy, the voice said. Enjoy the feeling of anticipation as you sit down to watch your show again, said the voice. I used all the mental strength I could muster to banish it from my mind as the voice ordered me to zoom back up my timeline to the present day. I felt like I was floating over the penultimate scene of the show, the one where everything is revealed, trying not to see the spoilers. The voice told me to float back to the point on my timeline before I watched "Big Little Lies" and turn around, looking ahead to the point in the future where I wanted to watch it again for the first time. This constant low-lying anxiety got worse every time I was told to relax. Still, throughout the whole hypnosis I was anxious someone was going to tap me on the shoulder. I took my headphones off to tell them I was being hypnotized by my computer and not to disturb me. I concentrated for a few minutes before it occurred to me that I should probably let my colleagues know what I was up to. Down the rabbit holeĪ lilting Swedish voice told me to relax and focus on the swirling image on my screen. I put my headphones, ticked a box confirming that I was "fully mentally healthy" and clicked through to start the hypnosis. I decided to see if the service could help me forget the HBO mini-series "Big Little Lies," partly because it's the best thing I've watched this year and partly because it was pictured on the "Unspoil Me" page. It claims that you'll "experience your favorite TV series as if it were the first time." On Tuesday, Reddit tipped me off to Samsung's Swedish site, which featured a hypnotherapy service called "Unspoil Me." It's an unusual bit of marketing, but the company said it worked with two hypnotists to develop the site. But some mornings the internet sends strange things your way. It's not every Tuesday morning that I sit at my desk, headphones on, eyes closed, willing myself to fall into a trance. ![]()
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